Gigabyte AORUS Gaming Motherboard - Z370 Gaming 3 - Intel 8th Gen

ATX Gaming Motherboard - 300 Series

The Gaming-3 motherboard from AORUS is part of their 300 Series range that boast the most advanced LED system on the market today. The Z370 board’s customisation and its intuitive UI through the RGB Fusion app allows you to make your AORUS board your own. Filled with countless technologies to help enhance gaming, audio, style and more this Z370 motherboard is equipped to handle the performance requirements of the majority of components. Plus, its durable and reinforced components from PCIe lanes to capacitors, this motherboard is sure to advance your PC in many different ways.

Please note: Z370 Motherboards are ONLY compatible with Intel 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' CPUs. Although these Intel Z370 Motherboards share the same socket as Intel's 200 & 100 Series Motherboards, they are electrically incompatible & will not work with 7th & 6th Gen Intel CPUs.

Intel Z370Chipset

1151CPU Socket

ATXForm Factor

Supercharged Z370 Performance

Supports 8th Gen Intel Core Processors

The AORUS Z370 enthusiast motherboards are faster and more powerful than any other motherboards the world has seen. With aggressively redesigned armor and thermal heatsinks, its performance capabilities and durability are second to none. Performance is no stranger to AORUS, with exotic cooling and an ability to be tuned to peak performance, AORUS motherboards will exceed expectations.

Aorus RGB Fusion LED Lighting

Multi-Zone Light Show Design

AORUS 300 series motherboards offer more LED customizations than ever, users can truly adapt their PC to represent their lifestyle. With full RGB support and a redesigned RGB Fusion application, the user has complete control over the LEDs which surround the motherboard. Multi-light zones are equipped with high brightness RGB LEDs, namely the CPU, Memory, Armor, Audio, PCI-Express and Swappable Overlay for Accent LED. When it’s all set and done, your system will shine like never before.

AORUS AMP-UP Audio

Smart Headphone AMP

The ALC1220 is a high-performance multi-channel High Definition Audio Codec with up to 120dB SNR for crystal clear audio and features such as Smart Headphone Amp, 114dB SNR recording for precise voice chats and hardware decoding of DSD128, ensuring users get the best possible audio quality from their PC. Automatically detects impedance of your head-worn audio device, whether earbuds or high-end headphones to provide optimal audio dynamics—preventing issues such as low volume and distortion.

Aorus Cooling

Smart Fan 5 & Fan Stop

With Smart Fan 5 users can ensure that their gaming PC can maintain its performance while staying cool. Smart Fan 5 allows users to interchange their fan headers to reflect different thermal sensors at different locations on the motherboard. Not only that, with Smart Fan 5 more hybrid fan headers that support both PWM and Voltage mode fans have been introduced to make the motherboard more liquid cooling friendly. Achieve fan silence. With Fan Stop map any fan to stop completely when temperatures drop below a specified threshold. Which fan stops, based on readings from which sensor, and at what temperature—all of it can be customized to your liking.

DDR4 XMP Support

DDR4 support for up to 4000MHz and Beyond

AORUS is offering a tested and proven platform that ensures proper compatibility with profiles up to 4000MHz and beyond. All users need to do to attain this performance boost is to ensure that their memory module is XMP capable and that the XMP function is activated and enabled on their AORUS motherboard. DDR4 memory modules are available at a stock frequency of 2133MHz, but as frequency tweaking requires a considerable amount of effort and knowledge, memory vendors encode XMP profiles which can automatically modify the timings of the supported memory modules to work with your CPU and to achieve increased performance.

PCIe Gen3 & NVMe M.2 Support

Extreme Performance with Gen3 x4 NVMe PCIe SSDs

AORUS Gaming Motherboards are focused on delivering M.2 technology to enthusiasts who want to maximize their system’s potential. AORUS' Z370 motherboards offer the industry’s best compatibility in terms of NVMe storage for users who demand high capacity and seek the best performance. AORUS' unique design which can be configured in RAID for record speeds of up to 3551 MB/s (Sequential Read), making AORUS the obvious choice for the ultimate PC.

Killer® E2500 Gaming Network LAN

Pure Speed Aorus Extreme USB 3.1

USB Type-C & Type-A Ports

The ASMEDIA 3142 USB 3.1 controller utilizes 2 PCIe Gen3 lanes, offering a total of up to 16 Gb/s, which means you have extra bandwidth to take full control of the 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 ports. With twice the bandwidth compared to its previous generation, and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 and 3.0, the much improved USB 3.1 protocol is available over the new reversible USB Type-C™ and the traditional USB Type-A connector for better compatibility over a wider range of devices.

AORUS Ultra Durable

Never worry about your heavy graphics card damaging your motherboard again. AORUS’ proprietary Ultra Durable PCIe Metal Shielding reinforces the PCIe connector to prevent slot damage due to heavy graphics card. The DIMM and PCIe metal shield also provides extra strength for when you forget to release the lock while replacing your component, adding a foolproof option which can save your PC’s life.

Anti-sulfur Resistor

Sulfur compounds in the air can penetrate tiny onboard resistors creating chemical change and causing these resistors to open or short. If either of these occurs the motherboard will fail to function. By equipping resistors with an Anti-Sulfur Design GIGABYTE gives Ultra Durable Motherboards a whole new meaning. The alloy protective layer that is shown it the image above, shows that the resistor is protected.

GIGABYTE APP Center

Easy Motherboard Modifying Software

The GIGABYTE APP Center gives you easy access to a wealth of GIGABYTE apps that help you get the most from your GIGABYTE motherboard. Using a simple, unified user interface, GIGABYTE APP Center allows you to easily launch all GIGABYTE apps installed on your system, check related updates online, and download the latest apps, drivers, and BIOS.

Features:
EasyTune | System Information Viewer | @BIOS | 3D OSD

TriDef SmartCam

Custom Software for Game Streaming

To facilitate being the full streaming solution each AORUS motherboard includes TriDef SmartCam software, you are now able to remove backgrounds without the hassle of using a green screen. Through the SmartCam application you can now apply live filters, and fully control your background, not only while streaming, but also through other video applications such as Skype.

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Meeko13 from
It's a great Motherboard if you don't want the RGB featuresWhen building my new PC I was tempted to go with Gigabyte as they were my previous motherboard beforehand, so I decided to buy the AORUS Z370 Motherboard.
On arrival the motherboard was packed nicely and it was simple to move the board about when building my PC if I needed to.
While using the board it booted first time for me and there wasn’t any faults with the product, being that the board was new though there was a bug which caused my fans to go to a high speed after I restarted my PC, I contacted Gigabyte support and they resolved my issue after helping me with a BIOS update.
After this my PC has been running smoothly and I’ve been having no problems ever since, I am pleased with this product and my favourite feature is the red LED lighting on the board which adds a bit of character to my computer.
I would defiantly recommend.